Recent content by Max Hofbauer

Parallel universes are only potential universes! Had John Smith gone that way instead of this, such and such would have happened. But as he didn´t, it must have happened in a parallel universe. Who says that everything that is conceivable MUST also be real? That would mean that our universe is...

Nothing shot vertically upwards has a chance to escape a g-field... in the long run. To illustrate this we need another Gedanken Experiment: In a universe holding only the Gedanken-Planet, but no other celestial bodies, you would never be able to shoot so far away that gravity could be...

Our moon is a naturally ocurring lopsided body. That must mean that the center of gravity is outside the center of geometry. The only way I can imagine such a mass distribution, requires a basically solid interior. Otherwise the material would be subjected to a slow flow, creating heat and...